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Glyndŵr's French treaty is compared with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's marriage alliance as a choice that intensified English hostility.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Aberystwyth Castle - Long Patrol P8/14 ·
Charles I's mint produces silver shillings and brings stronger security to the castle. It later becomes a wartime store before parliamentary slighting in 1649.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Aberystwyth Castle - Long Patrol P8/14 ·
The surviving towers, gate positions, and drawbridge approach show why Aberystwyth looked daunting even after later damage.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Aberystwyth Castle - Long Patrol P8/14 ·
Aberystwyth shows how a castle and dependable garrison converted control of a coastal border point and port into durable political power.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Aberystwyth Castle - Long Patrol P8/14 ·
The natural harbour, river, water obstacles, and defensible hills explain why a major castle belonged at Aberystwyth and why its plan followed the terrain.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Aberystwyth Castle - Long Patrol P8/14 ·
The review opens by defending Horrible Histories as an approachable route into castle history and medieval stories.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
The Warkworth introduction connects Henry II's troubled reign with Thomas Becket, rebellion within the royal family, and Scottish attacks in northern England.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
A tragic legend explains how Bertram de Bothal supposedly abandoned his wealth and carved a hermitage near Warkworth Castle.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
Warkworth's development from a weak timber castle to a Percy stronghold leads into Harry Hotspur's rebellion, death, and literary afterlife.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
The York Castle passage traces how crusade finance, legal restrictions on Christian moneylending, royal hostility, and rumor fed the 1190 massacre at Clifford's Tower.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
Richard I's fatal siege wound becomes a story about royal clemency, Eleanor of Aquitaine's harsher enforcement, and hostile memory within the Angevin family.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
Rochester Castle brings together King John, Magna Carta politics, mining, siege starvation, and restraint after surrender.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
A brief allegation about Arthur of Brittany shows how unexplained dynastic disappearance hardened King John's reputation for ruthless rule.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
Rochester's Lady Blanche story turns disguise, jealousy, and an accidental arrow strike into a white-lady haunting associated with the battlements.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
Beeston Castle's deep well links medieval water supply and treasure lore to a Civil War garrison reduced to almost no food or drink.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
Henry III's eight-week siege of Bedford shows the scale of royal mobilization and the machinery, ammunition, mining, and provisioning needed to break a castle.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
Bedford's defenders invite a comparison between King John's selective punishment at Rochester and Henry III's harsher response after surrender.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
A papal order arriving after the executions and Falkes de Breauté's survival expose the importance of message speed, timing, and unequal responsibility.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
Berkeley Castle frames Edward II's defeat, deposition, imprisonment, and alleged murder as a violent struggle over royal competence and succession.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
Isabella and Edward II provide an example of how an ineffective husband could endanger a capable queen in a martial feudal monarchy.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
Berkeley Castle's closing legend claims that Edward II's screams return every 21 September, the anniversary of his death.
From A Book or Two to Review (8): Horrible Histories - Crackin' Castles ·
The opening places Builth Castle at a River Wye crossing between northern and southern Wales, where geography still explains the site despite the loss of its masonry.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Builth Castle - Long Patrol P7/14 ·
The older motte-and-bailey passed among Norman, Marcher, and Welsh claimants before Llywelyn ap Gruffudd destroyed it in 1260.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Builth Castle - Long Patrol P7/14 ·
Edward I's rebuild treats Builth as a blank slate, reuses the earthworks to limit cost, and remains unfinished when the wider Welsh threat changes.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Builth Castle - Long Patrol P7/14 ·
Madog ap Llywelyn's revolt tests Builth in 1294, but the unfinished castle holds and remains useful enough for a royal grant and Roger Mortimer's castellanship.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Builth Castle - Long Patrol P7/14 ·
Builth's ownership becomes entangled with Isabella, Roger Mortimer, Edward II's fall, and Edward III's recovery of royal authority.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Builth Castle - Long Patrol P7/14 ·
Alice de Lacy's life grant and forced marriage to Hugh de Freyne show how personal vulnerability could redirect a strategically useful lordship.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Builth Castle - Long Patrol P7/14 ·
The Black Prince rents Builth back to the Mortimers but retains wartime garrison rights later exercised during Owain Glyndwr's revolt.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Builth Castle - Long Patrol P7/14 ·
The Wars of the Roses end the Mortimer rental, while Yorkist inheritance and Elizabeth of York's marriage carry Builth back into Tudor royal hands.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Builth Castle - Long Patrol P7/14 ·
Fire during Henry VIII's reign and local reuse of the ruins explain why Builth survives mainly as earthworks rather than visible masonry.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Builth Castle - Long Patrol P7/14 ·
The closing argument uses Builth as an inland exception to the Ring of Iron: a river-edge defensive site protecting already controlled land.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Builth Castle - Long Patrol P7/14 ·
Rhuddlan's six great towers illustrate the scale of Edward I's conquest by construction, with Beaumaris offered as a rival for completeness.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
A five-hour march and roughly half a day's sail connect Rhuddlan to Flint, while its river position gives access to routes into Wales.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
The plan places gates between pairs of Rhuddlan's six towers, making the entrances part of a formidable defensive arrangement.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Thomas Pennant's account of Rhuddlan in 1781 describes a ruin much like the castle that survives today.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Rhuddlan combines a deep river with a former centre of Welsh power, explaining why an inland site mattered to a campaign supported by ships.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Harold Godwinson's attack on Rhuddlan and successful Welsh campaigning help explain his standing before his contest with William the Conqueror.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Robert of Rhuddlan's Norman castle at nearby Twthill shows that Edward I inherited an already contested stronghold.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Edward I's move from Flint to Rhuddlan becomes a combined land-and-water logistics operation, with twenty-five Cinque Ports ships supporting thousands of troops upriver.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Welsh troops account for 9,000 of the 16,000 men in Edward I's reported army, making up a majority of the force that defeats Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Master Bertram, a Gascon engineer, begins Rhuddlan's construction before slow progress leads to a handover to James of St George.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Amadeus V brings an English relief force to Rhuddlan in 1282, while the garrison's protected river access keeps supplies moving during the siege.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Rhuddlan's river defences protect docking space in flooded ground, with a second area usable only when the water is high enough.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
In the same year that Rhuddlan faces siege, the castle is completed and Edward I's daughter Elizabeth is born there.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
The 1284 Statute of Rhuddlan turns conquest into administration by transferring former princely lands to the crown and extending royal offices and English law.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Rhuddlan withstands attacks in 1294 and 1400, although Owain Glyndŵr's forces badly damage the surrounding town.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
Cheaper administrative locations reduce investment in Rhuddlan, but its later Royalist garrison prompts Parliamentary capture and deliberate demolition.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·
A modern view of the inner ward reveals how height, multiple firing levels, and a colossal gate compound the danger faced by an attacker.
From The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/14 ·